I find that Twitter is almost useless to me because everyone I follow basically falls into two groups: 1) they never update, or 2) they mirror all their updates onto Facebook. But Twitter is still really attractive to me because of its ability to push little bits of information to your cell phone.

Because of this, I’m always on the lookout for interesting Twitter feeds that I can subscribe to on my phone. The only one that I’m following so far is @WiredResearch. But that got me thinking, what interesting things do I want pushed to my phone? My email – sure though that didn’t work so well. And then I figured that I want to know the result of Leaf games. Yes, I’m usually not so interested, but the recent acquisition of Phaneuf has piqued my interest again. I did a search and there weren’t any Twitter feeds for this! Sure, there were lots of feeds with hockey/Maple Leaf news or feeds that updated every time someone got a penalty or scored, but I just wanted, at most, one tweet a day with the final score.

Of course, since such a thing didn’t exist – I set forth to build my own. It turns out that the toughest part was to find a reliable feed for scores. I wanted a RSS feed but, like the Twitter feed, such a thing doesn’t exist! Eventually I found a good source to parse and create my own feed, and then socialized it to my brand spanking new Twitter account @DidTheLeafsWin. This feed should update within 30 minutes after the final buzzer and send the result to your Twitter feed or your phone! I only wish that I could test it more often than twice a week.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs, Facebook Notes Tags: hockey, twitter, webgeek